Cloud cost management lessons from a Fortune 500 media company - Onix
Cloud cost overruns are rarely caused by a single decision. They are the cumulative result of many small ones — provisioning choices made under time pressure, services adopted by individual teams without central visibility, and scaling configurations that were never revisited after initial deployment. This pattern is common across U.S. enterprises, and it is exactly what brought a leading Fortune 500 media company to Onix . The company's cloud environment had grown faster than its governance processes. Spending was rising, but attribution was unclear — departments could not identify which services were driving costs, and the finance team struggled to reconcile multi-service billing structures that changed month to month. Resource overprovisioning added another layer of waste: compute and storage capacity that had been allocated conservatively and never right-sized as actual usage patterns stabilized over time. Onix's Eagle FinOps addressed the problem at both levels. At the in...